Iron Pot Chronology

A copper pot from the Tongzhi period, cracked three times, has been used to hold mutton soup, rinse mountains and rivers, and survive famine. In the twelfth lunar month of 1920, Zheng Laoshao carried it into an abandoned courtyard outside Deshengmen; in the first lunar month of 1949, He Daqing buried the last pot piece in a southbound train.